Example sentences of "to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point is very important if the manager is left to select a supervisor who will be reporting directly to him/her . |
| 2 | Is his/her misbehaviour reinforced — wittingly or unwittingly — in the way people respond to him/her ? |
| 3 | You could , of course , go to his/her room to tend to him/her . |
| 4 | Someone with early stages of brain failure can be very aware of it , and anxious about what is happening to him/her . |
| 5 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 6 | Here , as elsewhere , a translator would be well advised to use those explanations which are compatible with the languages that are of interest to him/her and ignore the rest . |
| 7 | The English text achieves a higher level of informality by appearing to consider various angles of the problem in a relaxed , casual way , as if the writer is simply taking up issues as they occur to him/her . |
| 8 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 9 | The student should not be confused with long lists of new vocabulary to master before the drills can become meaningful to him/her . |
| 10 | a friendly giant who can not speak our language ( but we have to explain to him/her how dangerous s/he is ) |
| 11 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |
| 12 | As the doctors are still with Tony , I explain the position to the daughters and hand Mum over to them . |
| 13 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 14 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 15 | Generally , art criticism connected with mixed and group exhibitions is commentary from outside , so that we shall return to them , with only this brief mention here , in the next chapter . |
| 16 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 17 | The poem and novel I have attributed to them respectively can also , for certain purposes , be attributed to them both . |
| 18 | The poem and novel I have attributed to them respectively can also , for certain purposes , be attributed to them both . |
| 19 | If you want your weans to get homework then give it to them your tucking self . |
| 20 | The women are the vessels of a better spirit ; the injury to them is greater , and it is their own men who are responsible for some of that injury . |
| 21 | Stage nerves are unlike anything else in the whole world , and many good actors will confess to them right through their careers . |
| 22 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 23 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 24 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 25 | An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them . |
| 26 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
| 27 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 28 | I have made my plans and I must stick to them . |
| 29 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 30 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |